Carbon Pollution: Trick or Treat?

By: Elisabeth MacNamara10/30/2013

There are plenty of things to be scared of this Halloween season: goblins and ghouls, witches and haunted houses, deadly air pollution and climate change. Those last two might seem out of place, but they’re a real threat to the health of our children and the environment.

The unlimited dumping of carbon pollution is a chief cause of climate change. And that means more frequent and violent storms and extreme weather events, as well as worse smog, which cause asthma attacks.